Sunday, November 21, 2010

FO: Night cityscape

Yay! It's finished!

It's a night-time version of Cityscape. I couldn't find the exact buttons I wanted, but I think these work pretty. After a lot of manipulating and blocking, the cityscape portion looks a whole lot better. Still, it does not photograph particularly well and I have to loiter in bright light to appreciate the pattern. Lesson learned!

The yarn is Dream in Color, the purple part is Smooshy and the gray sparkly part is Starry--both are heavy sock weight except the Starry has little bits of sparkly metal spun in. As with another Dream in Color cardi, the yarn has really bad skein-to-skein color differences, even in the same dye lot. The sleeves and yoke are a lot lighter and stripe-ier than the main torso, grrr. As gauge wasn't possible with this yarn (pattern is written for DK weight yarn), I just went up a size and it seems to have turned out fine. The only mods I made were making the torso and sleeves a bit shorter, and knitting back-and-forth instead of in the round, since this is a (non-steekable) superwash yarn. Oh, and I did more waist shaping, and moved half the shaping stitches to the back, instead of having them on the sides.

Sorry for the rumpliness, it is hard to take pictures with the self timer.

All in all, this is a super-cute pattern, and I love it! I just wish the colors had been more different so that other people could appreciate the cityscape too...